Wedding Dresses, White, Which Length, Black Tie, Wartime Wedding, and Over-Sexed Dresses Post 666
I keep getting requests on Facebook to say which of three dresses a bride or brother of the bride or guest should wear to a wedding. Often it is a black tie wedding. Wedding Colours - Black Tie First, regarding colour. Black tie means men wear black ties. Co-ordinating with black suits. Sometimes dark blue. My wedding photo from 1976, showing black tie. Photo by Angela Lansbury. It does not mean that women wear black. Unless specifically requested to do so, rarely for a bride, and all her bridesmaids, to wear black, or a black and white colour scheme. Black For Funerals In the UK black is traditionally worn by mourners at a funeral, sometimes by the entire congregation. Men and women. If your hotel has a wedding and a funeral, you want to be sure that the doorman points you to the correct reception room. The Bride Wears White In The West This fashion was started by the wedding thrown by Queen Victoria for her daughter. White was impractical in the days before washing machine...